Bitnami package for Kube State Metrics

kube-state-metrics is a simple service that listens to the Kubernetes API server and generates metrics about the state of the objects.

Overview of Kube State Metrics

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TL;DR

helm install my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/kube-state-metrics

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository.

Introduction

This chart bootstraps kube-state-metrics on Kubernetes using the Helm package manager.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters.

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.23+
• Helm 3.8.0+

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

helm install my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/kube-state-metrics

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

The command deploys kube-state-metrics on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The configuration section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Configuration and installation details

Resource requests and limits

Bitnami charts allow setting resource requests and limits for all containers inside the chart deployment. These are inside the resources value (check parameter table). Setting requests is essential for production workloads and these should be adapted to your specific use case.

To make this process easier, the chart contains the resourcesPreset values, which automatically sets the resources section according to different presets. Check these presets in the bitnami/common chart. However, in production workloads using resourcePreset is discouraged as it may not fully adapt to your specific needs. Find more information on container resource management in the official Kubernetes documentation.

Rolling vs Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Use Sidecars and Init Containers

If additional containers are needed in the same pod (such as additional metrics or logging exporters), they can be defined using the sidecars config parameter.

sidecars:
- name: your-image-name
  image: your-image
  imagePullPolicy: Always
  ports:
  - name: portname
    containerPort: 1234

If these sidecars export extra ports, extra port definitions can be added using the service.extraPorts parameter (where available), as shown in the example below:

service:
  extraPorts:
  - name: extraPort
    port: 11311
    targetPort: 11311

NOTE: This Helm chart already includes sidecar containers for the Prometheus exporters (where applicable). These can be activated by adding the --enable-metrics=true parameter at deployment time. The sidecars parameter should therefore only be used for any extra sidecar containers.

If additional init containers are needed in the same pod, they can be defined using the initContainers parameter. Here is an example:

initContainers:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
      - name: portname
        containerPort: 1234

Learn more about sidecar containers and init containers.

Set Pod affinity

This chart allows you to set custom Pod affinity using the affinity parameter. Find more information about Pod’s affinity in the Kubernetes documentation.

As an alternative, use one of the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the podAffinityPreset, podAntiAffinityPreset, or nodeAffinityPreset parameters.

Parameters

Global parameters

Name	Description	Value
global.imageRegistry	Global Docker image registry	""
global.imagePullSecrets	Global Docker registry secret names as an array	[]
global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext	Adapt the securityContext sections of the deployment to make them compatible with Openshift restricted-v2 SCC: remove runAsUser, runAsGroup and fsGroup and let the platform use their allowed default IDs. Possible values: auto (apply if the detected running cluster is Openshift), force (perform the adaptation always), disabled (do not perform adaptation)	auto

Common parameters

Name	Description	Value
kubeVersion	Force target Kubernetes version (using Helm capabilities if not set)	""
nameOverride	String to partially override kube-state-metrics.name template with a string (will prepend the release name)	""
fullnameOverride	String to fully override kube-state-metrics.fullname template with a string	""
namespaceOverride	String to fully override common.names.namespace	""
commonLabels	Add labels to all the deployed resources	{}
commonAnnotations	Add annotations to all the deployed resources	{}
extraDeploy	Array of extra objects to deploy with the release	[]
diagnosticMode.enabled	Enable diagnostic mode (all probes will be disabled and the command will be overridden)	false
diagnosticMode.command	Command to override all containers in the the deployment(s)/statefulset(s)	["sleep"]
diagnosticMode.args	Args to override all containers in the the deployment(s)/statefulset(s)	["infinity"]

kube-state-metrics parameters

Name	Description	Value
automountServiceAccountToken	Mount Service Account token in pod	true
hostAliases	Add deployment host aliases	[]
rbac.create	Whether to create & use RBAC resources or not	true
rbac.pspEnabled	Whether to create a PodSecurityPolicy and bound it with RBAC. WARNING: PodSecurityPolicy is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.21 or later, unavailable in v1.25 or later	true
serviceAccount.create	Specifies whether a ServiceAccount should be created	true
serviceAccount.name	Name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated using the fullname template.	""
serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken	Automount service account token for the server service account	false
serviceAccount.annotations	Annotations for service account. Evaluated as a template. Only used if create is true.	{}
image.registry	kube-state-metrics image registry	REGISTRY_NAME
image.repository	kube-state-metrics image repository	REPOSITORY_NAME/kube-state-metrics
image.digest	kube-state-metrics image digest in the way sha256:aa…. Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag	""
image.pullPolicy	kube-state-metrics image pull policy	IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets	Specify docker-registry secret names as an array	[]
extraArgs	Additional command line arguments to pass to kube-state-metrics	{}
command	Override default container command (useful when using custom images)	[]
args	Override default container args (useful when using custom images)	[]
lifecycleHooks	for the kube-state-metrics container(s) to automate configuration before or after startup	{}
extraEnvVars	Array with extra environment variables to add to kube-state-metrics nodes	[]
extraEnvVarsCM	Name of existing ConfigMap containing extra env vars for kube-state-metrics pod(s)	""
extraEnvVarsSecret	Name of existing Secret containing extra env vars for kube-state-metrics pod(s)	""
extraVolumes	Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for the kube-state-metrics pod(s)	[]
extraVolumeMounts	Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for the kube-state-metrics container(s)	[]
sidecars	Add additional sidecar containers to the kube-state-metrics pod(s)	[]
initContainers	Add additional init containers to the kube-state-metrics pod(s)	[]
pdb.create	Enable/disable a Pod Disruption Budget creation	true
pdb.minAvailable	Minimum number/percentage of pods that should remain scheduled	""
pdb.maxUnavailable	Maximum number/percentage of pods that may be made unavailable. Defaults to 1 if both pdb.minAvailable and pdb.maxUnavailable are empty.	""
namespaces	Comma-separated list of namespaces to be enabled. Defaults to all namespaces. Evaluated as a template.	""
kubeResources.certificatesigningrequests	Enable the certificatesigningrequests resource	true
kubeResources.configmaps	Enable the configmaps resource	true
kubeResources.cronjobs	Enable the cronjobs resource	true
kubeResources.daemonsets	Enable the daemonsets resource	true
kubeResources.deployments	Enable the deployments resource	true
kubeResources.endpoints	Enable the endpoints resource	true
kubeResources.horizontalpodautoscalers	Enable the horizontalpodautoscalers resource	true
kubeResources.ingresses	Enable the ingresses resource	true
kubeResources.jobs	Enable the jobs resource	true
kubeResources.leases	Enable the leases resource	true
kubeResources.limitranges	Enable the limitranges resource	true
kubeResources.mutatingwebhookconfigurations	Enable the mutatingwebhookconfigurations resource	true
kubeResources.namespaces	Enable the namespaces resource	true
kubeResources.networkpolicies	Enable the networkpolicies resource	true
kubeResources.nodes	Enable the nodes resource	true
kubeResources.persistentvolumeclaims	Enable the persistentvolumeclaims resource	true
kubeResources.persistentvolumes	Enable the persistentvolumes resource	true
kubeResources.poddisruptionbudgets	Enable the poddisruptionbudgets resource	true
kubeResources.pods	Enable the pods resource	true
kubeResources.replicasets	Enable the replicasets resource	true
kubeResources.replicationcontrollers	Enable the replicationcontrollers resource	true
kubeResources.resourcequotas	Enable the resourcequotas resource	true
kubeResources.secrets	Enable the secrets resource	true
kubeResources.services	Enable the services resource	true
kubeResources.statefulsets	Enable the statefulsets resource	true
kubeResources.storageclasses	Enable the storageclasses resource	true
kubeResources.verticalpodautoscalers	Enable the verticalpodautoscalers resource	false
kubeResources.validatingwebhookconfigurations	Enable the validatingwebhookconfigurations resource	false
kubeResources.volumeattachments	Enable the volumeattachments resource	true
podSecurityContext.enabled	Enabled kube-state-metrics pods’ Security Context	true
podSecurityContext.fsGroupChangePolicy	Set filesystem group change policy	Always
podSecurityContext.sysctls	Set kernel settings using the sysctl interface	[]
podSecurityContext.supplementalGroups	Set filesystem extra groups	[]
podSecurityContext.fsGroup	Set kube-state-metrics pod’s Security Context fsGroup	1001
containerSecurityContext.enabled	Enabled containers’ Security Context	true
containerSecurityContext.seLinuxOptions	Set SELinux options in container	{}
containerSecurityContext.runAsUser	Set containers’ Security Context runAsUser	1001
containerSecurityContext.runAsGroup	Set containers’ Security Context runAsGroup	1001
containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot	Set container’s Security Context runAsNonRoot	true
containerSecurityContext.privileged	Set container’s Security Context privileged	false
containerSecurityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem	Set container’s Security Context readOnlyRootFilesystem	true
containerSecurityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation	Set container’s Security Context allowPrivilegeEscalation	false
containerSecurityContext.capabilities.drop	List of capabilities to be dropped	["ALL"]
containerSecurityContext.seccompProfile.type	Set container’s Security Context seccomp profile	RuntimeDefault
containerPorts.http	HTTP container port	8080
containerPorts.telemetry	Telemetry container port	8081
networkPolicy.enabled	Specifies whether a NetworkPolicy should be created	true
networkPolicy.kubeAPIServerPorts	List of possible endpoints to kube-apiserver (limit to your cluster settings to increase security)	[]
networkPolicy.allowExternal	Don’t require server label for connections	true
networkPolicy.allowExternalEgress	Allow the pod to access any range of port and all destinations.	true
networkPolicy.extraIngress	Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy	[]
networkPolicy.extraEgress	Add extra ingress rules to the NetworkPolicy	[]
networkPolicy.ingressNSMatchLabels	Labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces	{}
networkPolicy.ingressNSPodMatchLabels	Pod labels to match to allow traffic from other namespaces	{}
service.type	Kubernetes service type	ClusterIP
service.ports.http	kube-state-metrics service port	8080
service.nodePorts.http	Specify the nodePort value for the LoadBalancer and NodePort service types.	""
service.clusterIP	Specific cluster IP when service type is cluster IP. Use None for headless service	""
service.loadBalancerIP	loadBalancerIP if service type is LoadBalancer	""
service.loadBalancerSourceRanges	Address that are allowed when svc is LoadBalancer	[]
service.externalTrafficPolicy	kube-state-metrics service external traffic policy	Cluster
service.extraPorts	Extra ports to expose (normally used with the sidecar value)	[]
service.annotations	Additional annotations for kube-state-metrics service	{}
service.labels	Additional labels for kube-state-metrics service	{}
service.sessionAffinity	Session Affinity for Kubernetes service, can be “None” or “ClientIP”	None
service.sessionAffinityConfig	Additional settings for the sessionAffinity	{}
hostNetwork	Enable hostNetwork mode	false
priorityClassName	Priority class assigned to the Pods	""
schedulerName	Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default)	""
terminationGracePeriodSeconds	In seconds, time the given to the kube-state-metrics pod needs to terminate gracefully	""
topologySpreadConstraints	Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment	[]
resourcesPreset	Set container resources according to one common preset (allowed values: none, nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge). This is ignored if resources is set (resources is recommended for production).	nano
resources	Set container requests and limits for different resources like CPU or memory (essential for production workloads)	{}
replicaCount	Desired number of controller pods	1
podLabels	Pod labels	{}
podAnnotations	Pod annotations	{}
updateStrategy	Allows setting of RollingUpdate strategy	{}
minReadySeconds	How many seconds a pod needs to be ready before killing the next, during update	0
podAffinityPreset	Pod affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
podAntiAffinityPreset	Pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	soft
nodeAffinityPreset.type	Node affinity preset type. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard	""
nodeAffinityPreset.key	Node label key to match. Ignored if affinity is set.	""
nodeAffinityPreset.values	Node label values to match. Ignored if affinity is set.	[]
affinity	Affinity for pod assignment	{}
nodeSelector	Node labels for pod assignment	{}
tolerations	Tolerations for pod assignment	[]
livenessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off liveness probe	true
livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before liveness probe is initiated	120
livenessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe	10
livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out	5
livenessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe	6
livenessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe	1
readinessProbe.enabled	Turn on and off readiness probe	true
readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before readiness probe is initiated	30
readinessProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe	10
readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out	5
readinessProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe	6
readinessProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe	1
startupProbe.enabled	Turn on and off startup probe	false
startupProbe.initialDelaySeconds	Delay before startup probe is initiated	30
startupProbe.periodSeconds	How often to perform the probe	10
startupProbe.timeoutSeconds	When the probe times out	5
startupProbe.failureThreshold	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe	6
startupProbe.successThreshold	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe	1
customStartupProbe	Custom liveness probe for the Web component	{}
customLivenessProbe	Custom liveness probe for the Web component	{}
customReadinessProbe	Custom readiness probe for the Web component	{}
serviceMonitor.enabled	Creates a ServiceMonitor to monitor kube-state-metrics	false
serviceMonitor.namespace	Namespace in which Prometheus is running	""
serviceMonitor.jobLabel	The name of the label on the target service to use as the job name in prometheus.	""
serviceMonitor.interval	Scrape interval (use by default, falling back to Prometheus’ default)	""
serviceMonitor.scrapeTimeout	Timeout after which the scrape is ended	""
serviceMonitor.selector	ServiceMonitor selector labels	{}
serviceMonitor.honorLabels	Honor metrics labels	false
serviceMonitor.relabelings	ServiceMonitor relabelings	[]
serviceMonitor.metricRelabelings	ServiceMonitor metricRelabelings	[]
serviceMonitor.labels	Extra labels for the ServiceMonitor	{}
serviceMonitor.extraParameters	Any extra parameter to be added to the endpoint configured in the ServiceMonitor	{}
serviceMonitor.sampleLimit	Per-scrape limit on number of scraped samples that will be accepted.	""
selfMonitor.enabled	Creates a selfMonitor to monitor kube-state-metrics itself	false
selfMonitor.telemetryNodePort	Kube-state-metrics Node Port	""

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example the following command sets the replicas of the kube-state-metrics Pods to 2.

helm install my-release --set replicas=2 oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/kube-state-metrics

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

helm install my-release -f values.yaml oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/kube-state-metrics

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts. Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Troubleshooting

Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami’s Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.

Upgrading

helm upgrade my-release oci://REGISTRY_NAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/kube-state-metrics

Note: You need to substitute the placeholders REGISTRY_NAME and REPOSITORY_NAME with a reference to your Helm chart registry and repository. For example, in the case of Bitnami, you need to use REGISTRY_NAME=registry-1.docker.io and REPOSITORY_NAME=bitnamicharts.

To 4.0.0

This major bump changes the following security defaults:

• runAsGroup is changed from 0 to 1001
• readOnlyRootFilesystem is set to true
• resourcesPreset is changed from none to the minimum size working in our test suites (NOTE: resourcesPreset is not meant for production usage, but resources adapted to your use case).
• global.compatibility.openshift.adaptSecurityContext is changed from disabled to auto.

This could potentially break any customization or init scripts used in your deployment. If this is the case, change the default values to the previous ones.

To 3.0.0

This major release renames several values in this chart and adds missing features, in order to be aligned with the rest of the assets in the Bitnami charts repository.

Affected values:

• service.port was renamed as service.ports.metrics.
• service.nodePort was renamed as service.nodePorts.metrics.
• securityContext was split in podSecurityContext and containerSecurityContext.
• Removed unused value rbac.apiVersion.

To 2.0.0

This version updates kube-state-metrics to its new major, 2.0.0. There have been some value’s name changes to acommodate to the naming used in 2.0.0:

• .Values.namespace -> .Values.namespaces
• .Values.collectors -> .Values.kubeResources

For more information, please refer to kube-state-metrics 2 release notes.

To 1.1.0

This version introduces bitnami/common, a library chart as a dependency. More documentation about this new utility could be found here. Please, make sure that you have updated the chart dependencies before executing any upgrade.

To 1.0.0

On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support formally ended. This major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.

License

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